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John Fay has been the Reds beat writer for the Enquirer since 2001. Prior to that, he served in a variety of roles for the Enquirer: backup Reds writer, UC beat writer, backup Bengals writer and as a general assignment reporter. He is a Cincinnati native and a graduate of Elder High School and the University of Dayton.

Sunday, July 8, 2007

Hamilton update

Josh Hamilton is sporting a cast on his sprained right wrist today. Here's what he had to say about what happened Saturday....

"I’ve been having a little pain in it the last week. I’ve had a similar thing in my left wrist before. I just taped it up then and worked through it and it went away. I was on deck yesterday before the first at-bat, just taking some dry swings and it popped. It was just like a rush of fire going up my pinkie and went numb, up through my forearm. I went and hit the first at-bat and it just got worse and worse. I tried to swing before my second at-bat on deck and I couldn’t swing it."

"They wanted to put me in either a splint or this (cast) and I told them to put me in this because I’d be more likely to take the splint off than actually let it rest.

5 Comments:

Why wait until Thursday to have it checked? I've never understood why anytime an athlete is hurt, it seems like it's days and days before an MRI is done. Why aren't MRIs done routinely and immediatley after a suspected injury? I know it costs money, but it's pennies in this business.

I agree that the MRI should have been done immediately. Josh Hamilton is the possible centerfielder of the future. If the injury is serious enough that you need to put a cast on it, it would seem serious enough to get an MRI. No real urgency? That attitude is why Narron wasn't fired sooner, and why the Reds are in the cellar.

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